A jailed police officer who sparked a nationwide terror alert with a hoax 999 call to his own force has now been sacked.

Former PC Amar Tasaddiq Hussain was sentenced to seven years for making an anonymous warning that a terrorist planned to kidnap and behead a Muslim policeman.

Now the disgraced former officer has been sacked by West Midlands Police, with Chief Constable Dave Thompson describing his crime as “a most disgraceful act”.

Mr Thompson said: “This was grotesque behaviour which horrified the public, staff in West Midlands Police and other people, including myself. It was a most disgraceful act.”

Hussain was charged along with Adil Bashir, 26, and Muhammad Ali Sheikh, 31, both of Birmingham, with two counts of conspiracy to pervert the course of justice.

All three denied the charges but were convicted.

Bashir and Ali Sheikh were each given three year sentences.

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Stafford Crown Court heard that Hussain told his force that a man with links to Islamic State and Syria planned to abduct an officer.

Hussain had hoped his bogus tip-off would discredit an official within an Islamic community group .

The court was told that the “false and malicious” call about the kidnap plot, and a further two calls about an alleged sham marriage, were made to target two men named Faisal Sami and Irfan Ul-Haq because of a “personal grudge”.

Adil Bashir, (left) and Muhammad Ali Sheikh who have been convicted of two counts of conspiracy to pervert the course of justice

Hussain wanted to become head of security at the Dawat-e-Islami group, a faith group which held peaceful gatherings where Mr Sami was the leader in the West Midlands.

This led the three defendants to start the elaborate campaign to discredit and undermine Ul-Haq and Faisal Sami.

The bogus allegation that a kidnapping was imminent led to a man being arrested by counter-terrorism police at a tyre business in Walsall.

But it soon became obvious to police that the claims made against the innocent party were malicious.

In police interviews Hussain refused to comment on questions put to him by detectives.

But shortly before the trial he admitted making the bogus 999 call.

Suspended PC Hussain had served seven years with the force and was based at Birmingham West and Central local policing unit.